Three Foods, One Method

• 01 Lotus Oven Baked Small Bites Chicken Swap Remove
• 02 NutriSource PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free Swap Remove
• 03 TruDog Garden of Vegan Plant-Based Swap Remove

Three Foods, One Method. Each row is one measure; the best figure in a row is marked.

	01 Lotus Oven Baked Small Bites Chicken Swap Remove	02 NutriSource PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free Swap Remove	03 TruDog Garden of Vegan Plant-Based Swap Remove	+ Add A Food
01 Protein, Dry Matter Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream.	01 Oven Baked Small Bites Chicken 20.0%	02 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 30.0% Best in this row	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 26.1%
02 Carbohydrate Load, Dry Matter Lower Is Better Estimated, 6% ash assumed. iEstimated, not measured. It is what is left of the guaranteed analysis once protein, fat, fiber and moisture are taken out, with ash assumed at 6%. That leftover is mostly starch but also carries sugars and the fiber a crude-fiber test misses, so read it as a close estimate rather than an exact figure. Measured as fed, the same basis as the bag.	01 Oven Baked Small Bites Chicken 58% 52.5% as fed	02 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 40% 36.0% as fed Best in this row	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 40% 4.8% as fed Best in this row
03 Named Proteins In The First Five Count of named animal proteins. iThe count matches any named animal word in the opening five ingredients, so it also counts animal fats and flavourings as proteins. It is shown because it is one of the five measured lines, but it is too rough to call a winner on.	01 Oven Baked Small Bites Chicken 3 of 5	02 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 2 of 5	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 0 of 5
04 Flagged Additives Level Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list.	01 Oven Baked Small Bites Chicken None	02 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free None	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based None
05 Brand Recall History Lower Is Better Manufacturer, not recipe.	01 Oven Baked Small Bites Chicken None Best in this row	02 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 1 None in the last 3 years	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based None Best in this row
Starch, As Fed iEstimated, not measured. It is what is left of the guaranteed analysis once protein, fat, fiber and moisture are taken out, with ash assumed at 6%. That leftover is mostly starch but also carries sugars and the fiber a crude-fiber test misses, so read it as a close estimate rather than an exact figure. Measured as fed, the same basis as the bag.	01 Oven Baked Small Bites Chicken 52.5%	02 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 36.0%	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based 4.8%
Kcal / Cup	01 Oven Baked Small Bites Chicken 401	02 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free 406	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based --
Price / Lb Lowest Across Bag Sizes	01 Oven Baked Small Bites Chicken $5.94 5 lb bag, BaxterBoo.com	02 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free -- No price on file.	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based -- No price on file.
Cost / 1,000 Kcal Lower Is Cheaper To Feed What the same amount of energy costs, so a denser food is not penalized for a higher price per pound.	01 Oven Baked Small Bites Chicken $3.86	02 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free -- No price on file.	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based -- No price on file.
First Five Ingredients	01 Oven Baked Small Bites Chicken Chicken, Rye, Chicken Liver, Sardine, Brown Rice	02 PureVita Puppy Lamb & Pumpkin Entree Grain-Free lamb, lamb meal, garbanzo beans, chickpea flour, dried plain beet pulp	03 Garden of Vegan Plant-Based Vegetable broth, chickpeas, potatoes, pea protein, carrots

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Every figure here is the food's own. Protein and carbohydrate are converted to dry matter so foods of different moisture can be set beside each other; starch is estimated from the guaranteed analysis with ash assumed at 6.0%, and the recall record belongs to the manufacturer rather than to the recipe. Two rows are printed but never marked: the named-protein count, because the detection behind it is too rough to call a winner on, and calories, because neither more nor fewer is better without knowing the dog.